Do you vape in public?

[EddardinWinter]

It is both that are a threat, and I'm not saying don't vape in public forever, just until more real information is made public, and businesses can make educated decisions about if they choose to allow it. I'm also not talking about parks or any public place where smoking is still allowed. I'm talking about brazenly strolling through Target or the mall and vaping. Some businesses have already made the decision to restrict vaping to designated smoking areas. I took a Carnival cruise last month, and they had ecig restrictions printed on the ticket.

When smoking was first banned there were a lot of bars and restaurants that wanted to continue to allow it, but the government told them they couldn't. As ecig use continues to grow by leaps and bounds, there may be a lot of establishments that want to allow it, maybe even cater to it. I'm just saying to give that a chance to happen.

Okay, well you can do it your way, and I will do it my way. I was vaping in a bar watching some basketball last night...I met a couple who both smoked. The girl used my ProVari once...her eyes lit up, and she was like, "where did you get that?...I thought electronic cigarettes were those Blu things!" She ordered a ProVari for herself and her boyfriend from her phone during the timeouts, and liquid, and batteries, etc. This bar I was in permits vaping, but does not permit smoking. What better place to meet and convert vapers is there on earth, I ask... (rhetorically)

I will vape publicly in non-smoking, but appropriate areas, and I will convert an army of smokers to vaping before I am through. I have lost count of my converts, but I know it is pushing or exceeding triple digits at this point.

 

[Ravensfan]

Okay, well you can do it your way, and I will do it my way. I was vaping in a bar watching some basketball last night...I met a couple who both smoked. The girl used my ProVari once...her eyes lit up, and she was like, "where did you get that?...I thought electronic cigarettes were those Blu things!" She ordered a ProVari for herself and her boyfriend from her phone during the timeouts, and liquid, and batteries, etc. This bar I was in permits vaping, but does not permit smoking. What better place to meet and convert vapers is there on earth, I ask... (rhetorically)

I will vape publicly in non-smoking, but appropriate areas, and I will convert an army of smokers to vaping before I am through. I have lost count of my converts, but I know it is pushing or exceeding triple digits at this point.

That's great if the bar allows you to vape, and it is nice that you converted some smokers over. How many uninformed non-smokers sat in the bar watching you vape and made judgements, thinking you were smoking, and thinking they won that war? As soon as those people start speaking up, the bar owner, or more likely the government, is going to step in and ban it, and once it's banned it's unlikely that gets overturned.

 

[wv2win]

It is both that are a threat, and I'm not saying don't vape in public forever, just until more real information is made public, and businesses can make educated decisions about if they choose to allow it. I'm also not talking about parks or any public place where smoking is still allowed........................

I am confused by what you mean "more real information"? There are already a number of studies published that show vaping is harmless for those in the general vicinity.

And those who advocate acting like vaping is the same as smoking, as some in this thread have, what message are they sending to the uninformed?

Vaping openly most places but respectfully is what many of us advocate. What many of us have found is that it provides the uninformed the opportunity to learn that vaping is not the same as smoking and walk away with a positive impression.

There are many parks where smoking is not allowed. Should we not vape in those parks and if so, why?

I do agree with you that disrespectful vaping, just like any disrespectful behavior, such as playing loud music, should definitely be discouraged and challenged.

I always find it curious that those who state we should act like vaping is the same as smoking (not referring to you) also usually state something in their post about "blowing vapor in others faces". I find it highly ignorant to assume that if one vapes openly in public, they are automatically going to go around and blow vaper in people's faces.

 

[EddardinWinter]

That's great if the bar allows you to vape, and it is nice that you converted some smokers over. How many uninformed non-smokers sat in the bar watching you vape and made judgements, thinking you were smoking, and thinking they won that war? As soon as those people start speaking up, the bar owner, or more likely the government, is going to step in and ban it, and once it's banned it's unlikely that gets overturned.

You know what non-smokers think?!?

The owner vapes, so I bet that your scenario won't happen. There are nearly as many vapers in there these days as non-vapers. If I convert enough people locally...we will have a sufficient number to compose an important demographic.

You wanna keep your vaping private? That sir, is your business. How I vape is my business. I would rather go down spreading the virtues of vaping, than hiding it fearing that I might offend some person who doesn't know the difference between vaping and smoking. I wonder, how many smokers will live longer, healthier lives because of my decision to vape publicly? I don't know the answer, but I bet it will help quite a few. Even if I get it banned (and I summarily reject your premise that public vaping has anything to do with bans), it is worth it if I can save many smokers from their destructive habit before the bans come, IMHO.

 

[EddardinWinter]

The Ocelot told me that I would kill a puppy every time I got into one of these silly threads...and yet...like a moth to the flame, here I go again. Lions are mighty predators, but slow on the uptake at times...

Peace, fellow vapers. Let us not quibble over how we vape. I vape publicly, and that choice is no better than any other. It is simply my way.

Cheers.

 

[littamomto4]

I vape everywhere I just don't make a spectacle of myself while doing it. In the grocery store if i want to do it I wait until I am on an isle alone. If I am outside I do it with regards to other people. I do it all day at both my jobs and never get dirty looks(just questions about it). I feel like I am stealth vaping, but I was taught to respect others wishes and space. We had a festival here awhile back and I asked the others around me if it would bother them and and they all said no, by the time I left some of the others around me were asking where I got it and such... JMO

 

[Free6413]

Heck yeah!! The misinformed sometimes give dirty looks but usually don't say anything. I vape in theaters but I blow the exhaled vapor down in my lap. I don't want to get into a tiff when I just spent $50 to take the family to see the flick. I found my way into vaping by asking somebody that was vaping in public what is the deal with these things? I gained enough info to start my research and now I have been smoke free for almost 4 months now. If it hadn't bee for "that guy" I probably would be trying to quit. There are a lot of folks out there that try to impose their will on others and there alway will be. If someone gets offended then that is their cross to bear. I have enough imposed will in my life to care about their whines and gripes. I don't mean to sound insensitive but there has to be a line drawn somewhere! The exhaled vapor is no more harmful than the "fog" at concerts and other venues that use this effect. The one's that cast those stares have no trouble going to places that use these machines and most will even take their children. Ever been to Disney World or Land?? This stuff is used habitually. Somehow people will save their entire lives to take the family there. How is my little contribution to the immediate vacinity going to compare to that? Sorry, but I am getting too old to worry about what others think or say. Unless it directly effects my family and livelihood, whatever!!

 

[Elanwar]

Even E-Cig are not allowed in movie theaters due to vapor obscuring beams from the machine that shows the movie on the big screen

 

[flaming_gnat]

outside in open areas, but not anywhere that you couldn't smoke the analogs in public. just too much ignorance as stated above. don't need the trouble.

but if i find somewhere quiet...sure why not? say an empty stairwell at the plant i work at.

 

[Rossum]

Right now the ecig industry is exploding, and as a result falling under the watchful eye of the government.

 

[jimbol]

Like others here I essentially vape where I want but I try to be respectful of others. Some don't know/trust what's in the plume. I'm not supposed to vape at work but I have an office so I do. When others come around I put it away for a while. What I will NOT do is go vape with the smokers, I'm not smoking and feel no need to go out in the weather just 'cause.

 

[Donj85]

I do it all the time in public. Not in restaurants though but in bars I will unless I'm asked not to. Most of the microbreweries are in support of it where I'm from.


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[jaysix]

I treat it the same as smoking..if smoking is prohibited, I don't vape. It is common courtesy to the other non smoker/non vaping people. I honestly don't see a reason to be vaping in stores anyhow. If you can't go that long without vaping you have other issues. You didn't walk around stores smoking a cigarette in the past 15-20 years and you made it just fine.

 

[MrJinx103]

Okay, well you can do it your way, and I will do it my way. I was vaping in a bar watching some basketball last night...I met a couple who both smoked. The girl used my ProVari once...her eyes lit up, and she was like, "where did you get that?...I thought electronic cigarettes were those Blu things!" She ordered a ProVari for herself and her boyfriend from her phone during the timeouts, and liquid, and batteries, etc. This bar I was in permits vaping, but does not permit smoking. What better place to meet and convert vapers is there on earth, I ask... (rhetorically)

I will vape publicly in non-smoking, but appropriate areas, and I will convert an army of smokers to vaping before I am through. I have lost count of my converts, but I know it is pushing or exceeding triple digits at this point.

I am a blatant vaper. I am not a stealth vaper by any means, but I am courteous of those around me. 9 out of 14 people at my place of work smoked analogs, 7 converted after I let them try it, 1 dropped the nic levels and quit nicotine all together within 6 months of converting. The non smokers or ex smokers that might catch some vapor just ask " what flavor have you got in that thing today? it smells like cotton candy!" I've gotten more positive feedback by vaping in places that others are hesitant to, answering questions and handing out cards from my local vape shops, than negative. I don't get dirty looks, only confused and intrigued If we all take pride in our decision to better our well being, our forces would multiply exponentially.

 

[calalli]

I vape in bars unless asked not too. Otherwise, not in public buildings.

 

[Tinkiegrrl]

I do it at work, but only in my office which I don't share with anyone. I don't try to hide it if a client walks by or anything. I stealth vape in the mall and movie theater.

 

[stylemaster2001]

Funny story today, went to Cracker Barrel with my sister...sitting at the table with our 2 MVP's with different wraps and the waitress comments..."omg, look at those, they are soooooooooo nice, can I get a picture of that?" She said her and her bf been vaping for a year and she wants to upgrade to something like this. Takes a pic on her camera and asks what our favorite flavors are. My sis puts a tip condom on hers and says "try this". The waitress vapes it right on the restaurant floor in full view of all the patrons!!!!!!! We wrote down a couple of vape shops she could hit for flavors, etc. and I said "well, guess we know it's ok to vape in here"...but we didn't. Im like everyone else. If smoking isn't allowed, Im not gonna walk thru blowing clouds.

 

[lil_berre]

I capeat work all day and at my local bar. Out of respect for other I ddon't use in a lot of public places like target or a restaurant.

 

[sc12]

Not usually in stores, restaurants, etc. but I was in a giant furniture store recently for so long that I found a comfy chair and vaped awhile.

 

[ImperfectFuture]

Don't have much choice, king county banned in smoking arena, but it is loosely enforced. Live in non smoking building, but can vape. I guess I could push it, but those that say they refuse to vape where others smoke, what if the law states you must? Are you that brave to go against the man? Interesting, so what would you do?